Information theory : 50 years of discovery / edited by Sergio Verdú, Steven W. McLaughlin

621.39.B6100 V487

Information theory : 50 years of discovery / edited by Sergio Verdú, Steven W. McLaughlin

English

New York : IEEE Press, 2000.

x, 758 p. : ill. ; ; 29 cm. + 1 computer laser optical disc (4 3/4 in.).

This book is a collection of tutorial and retrospective papers on key subjects from communications, signal processing, computer science, probability and statistics and, of course, information theory. The topics range from the practical (data and image compression, error control coding, data storage, detection and estimation, coded modulation, quantum computing and wavelets) to the more theoretical (minimum description principle and zero-error information theory).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes and CD-ROM containing indexes for IEEE Information Theory Transactions since 1953!
Articles originally appeared in October 1998 as a special issue of the IEEE Transactions in information theory. This special issue commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Claude Shannon's original 1948 paper that singlehandedly started information theory.

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